10 EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



4 GEORGE V., A. 1914 



Outside of the time spent at school and college, he worked on the farm and took 

 an interest in Farmers' Institute work, being secretary of the West Huron Farmers' 

 Institute for five years, and speaking for several winters on the Institute staff. 



From 1900 to 1903, he managed a Dominion Poultry Station for the Department 

 of Agriculture, and in the latter year, upon the resignation of Mr. F. C. Hare, he 

 took charge of the Poultry Division, Live Stock Branch, under Professor J. W. 

 Robertson. After remaining here two years, he resigned to take the management of 

 the Poultry Department at Macdonald College, under Dr. Robertson. 



Nearly seven years were spent at Macdonald, until, in January, 1912, he took up 

 work with the Cyphers Incubator Co., of Buffalo, N.Y. After six months, he left 

 Buffalo to take the management of the Canadian Incubator Co., Toronto, and while 

 filling this position was appointed Dominion Poultry Husbandman. This is a newly- 

 created office, whose incumbent is in charge of poultry breeding and feeding opera- 

 tions at the Central Experimental Farm, as well as at the different branch Farms of 

 the Dominion Experimental Farms system, throughout which it is proposed to do 

 very considerable poultry work in the future. 



Mr. W. S. Blair, Superintendent of the Experimental Station, Kentville, N.S., 

 was born at Onslow, Colchester county, Nova Scotia, August 24, 1873. After his 

 early training in the country school, one winter was spent at the Ontario Business 

 College, Belleville, Ont. This was followed by two years at Mount Allison Academy, 

 taking, in addition to the regular course of studies, chemistry, physics, botany and 

 geology. Two years were spent at the Nova Scotia Horticultural School, Wolfville, 

 N.S., from which a diploma was granted. When attending the horticultural school, 

 special studies were taken in ihe natural sciences at Acadia College. 



He was appointed Horticulturist, Maritime Experimental Farm, Nappan, N.S., in 

 1897, which position he resigned, in 1905, to take charge of the Horticultural Depart- 

 ment at Macdonald College, P.Q., which department he had the management of until 

 he resigned in June, 1912, to assume the duties of Superintendent of the Experimental 

 Station for the Annapolis Valley at Kentville. 



On April 19, 1907, he received the appointment from McGill University of 

 Assistant Professor of Horticulture at Macdonald College. On October 5, 1909, by 

 order of the Board of Governors of McGill University, he was appointed Professor of 

 Horticulture at Macdonald College, with a seat on the Faculty of Agriculture. 



He was appointed Superintendent of the Kentville Experimental Station, June, 

 1912. 



Mr. Joseph Begin, appointed to the position of Superintendent of the Experi- 

 mental Station at Ste. Anne de la Pocatiere, Que., was born in 1870 in the parish of 

 St. Jean Chrysostome, where he received his education up to the age of fourteen, 

 after which he took the ' Landry ' popular course in agriculture in vogue at that 

 time. After working a year on his father's farm, he entered the nurseries of Caron 

 and Dusseault, of St. Henri, to obtain a practical knowledge of horticulture and 

 arboriculture. In 1885, he went to the Canadian West, where he held positions with 

 the Hudson Bay Company and with the Canadian Pacific Railway Company. 



Returning to Quebec in 1895, he bought 90 arpents of land, part unbroken and 

 the remainder in a very poor state of cultivation. This, the St. Isidore Farm, was 

 classed fifth in 1908 in the Good Farm competition of the county. He was the first, 

 if not the only one, to practise scientific dairying in the parish, and to adopt and 

 follow regular rotations. With poultry, he has studied systems of artificial incuba- 

 tion and also the problems connected with the construction of sanitary, comfortable 

 and cheap poultry houses. 



Mr. W. W. Hubbard was appointed to the office of Superintendent of the Experi- 

 mental Station at Fredericton, N.B., on the 1st of October, 1912. 



